Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck its whole stockpile before anything further was done about control; 2) flatly rejected a stringent system of international inspection...
...harsh remedy of Britain's pound devaluation was beginning to take effect last week. The patients did not like it. Throughout the world, industry faced the fact that in the fight for foreign trade it would now have to compete for all it was worth with cheaper British goods. French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a Western European trade bloc to meet what he called British "commercial warfare...
Henceforth G.I.s may, without risking the guardhouse, give presents of castoff clothing, chewing gum or cigarettes to their Japanese friends, male or female. The G.I.s can also take their girls to Japanese movies without worrying about MPs. They are free to enter Japanese theaters, restaurants, hotels or hospitals, and to be entertained by Japanese friends in their homes. They may travel around Japan without official, written permission, and it is all right for them to compete in "all sports" with the Japanese, who are anxious to match some of their baseball teams against service outfits...
...Failures in art," he said, "take refuge in abstract art, in morbid art, in perverted art-in short, in infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish...
This annual melancholia did not generally extend to U.S. parents. Popeyed, they watched the new styles in clothes and friends take form; only half believing, they listened as, with the fall semester, the language began its annual metamorphosis on teen-age tongues...